The study is the first to identify an association between body composition of the arms and poor bone quality. In addition to ...

Bone cancer is a serious ailment. It involves abnormal cell growth in bones. It damages healthy tissues. It often affects the ...

Scientists have uncovered bone fragments from a human ancestor that lived around 700,000 years ago and was believed to be less than 3 feet tall.

A recently found jawbone, arm bone fragment and teeth collected from an archaeological site in Indonesia revealed a diminutive ancestor of humans dubbed a “hobbit” who lived around 700,000 ...

New fossils from Indonesia, including the smallest humerus ever found from an adult hominin, belonged to the tiny Homo floresiensis species, researchers said.

The 25-year-old went back into the operating room, and doctors cut open his arm to check on the thumb bone hiding inside, according to the report. To their relief, the bone was still alive.

Myles Grimmett had a bone transplanted from his leg into his arm when he was 5 years old in a groundbreaking surgery that saved him from amputation.

Beneath your scaphoid and lunate bones, you will find the radiocarpal joint. This connects the other two bones to the radius, the inner bone of your arm. It’s a modified ball-and-socket joint ...

Dislocated shoulder, elbow, or wrist (when the bones are pulled or moved from the joint) Arm or shoulder surgery By keeping your arm from moving, a sling can help speed up the healing process and ...

When researchers excavated fossilized fragments of a rod-shaped bone 3-1/2 inches (88 mm) long at a site called Mata Menge on Indonesia's Flores island, the pieces initially were bagged and marked ...

The fossil limb bone provides a wealth of evidence about the body size evolution of Homo floresiensis. The microscopic structure of this tiny bone indicates it came from an adult.

The bone of the thumb was “banked” in the man’s arm, appearing on X-rays just below the wrist. Kafiabadi, et al (2025) Journal of Medical Case Reports ...